Disch Promontory
| Disch Promontory | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 34 ′ S , 162 ° 52 ′ E | |
The Disch Promontory is a towering, icy and 10 km long promontory in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range , it extends from the east side of the Prince Andrew Plateau .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1966 after the United States Antarctic Research Program make Ionosphärenphysiker Carl Robert Disch (1938-1965), who on May 8, 1965 in a snowstorm near the Byrd Station was killed.
Web links
- Disch Promontory in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Disch Promontory on geographic.org (English)